Garment



C. C. ARPlN June 16, 1942.

GARMENT Filed Dec. 15, 1959 Patented June 16, 1942 3 UN-l TED F T QFFF IQ E GARMENT Charlotte 0. Arpin, Fort Lauderdale, F a. I Application December 15, 19.; 9',- Ser ial No. 309,496

1 Claim. (ole-237) T This invention relates to improvements in garments, itsoutstanding principles being to provide for the adjustment of the ,waist band and further to provide a roomy garment whichcan be wornv with a high degreeofcomfort. These principles are enlarged uponin the following statementsof the objects of the invention, which are:

First, to provide a garment having a waistband which is variably adjustable to the waist size of the wearer.

Second, to provide a garment wherein definitely located stretching areas are embodied, said areas, however, being characterized by consisting of some of the same material as that of the main garment but set in bias formation in respect thereto so as to allow a large amount of yielding and. conformation of the garment while in use.

Third, to provide a garment wherein the seat area is suspended from a ridge in such a manner as not only to provide adequate support for the seat area but also to provide a larger percentage of roominess than is customarily afforded.

Fourth, to provide a garment wherein the socalled suspension ridge is immediately attached to it and a crotch insert which provides for an inverted U shape of the crotch when the garment is worn instead of the prevailing inverted V shape.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the followingspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved garment. I

Figure 2 is a rear elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is a detail perspective view of a por-. tion of the garment particularly illustrating the roominess afforded by the instant manner of suspension of the seat area.

Figure 4 is a detail perspective view particularly illustrating the waist-band adjustment.

In carrying out the invention the garment l is shown to comprise a waist-band 2 and a pair of tubular leg members 3. At this point it is desired to explain that the principles of the invention are not necessarily confined to the embodiment in a nether garment as herein disclosed. Said principles will work just as effectively if embodied in garments of other types, for example, lounging pajamas.

The waist-band 2 is hemmed as suggested by the dotted lines 4 in order to provide a sufiiciently heavy foundation for a plurality of fastening members. The waist-band 2 is considerably longer than would be necessary for the fitting of the garment to a wearer having a waist measure to which the garment is suited, the result being that said Waist-"bandis overlapped at the points denoted '5 and -6 (,Fig. 1), the character of the overlaps gbeing clearly illustrated in Fig. 4 where- 'in a front-panel 1 at its upper end is folded down to reveal the opening '8 resulting from the particular panel formation.

Another panel 9 is observed in Fig. 4, this, as

can be understood from Fig. 1, matching the panel I with substantial exactness. These panels 1, 9, are not actual inserts in the garment, but comprise a theoretical area which is distinguishable partly by the angled cut of the edges l0 and II of fabric members I2, l3, that compose parts of the leg members 3 and complete the panels I and 9 at the front of the garment.

These fabric members taper at M toward the hems ii of the leg openings. Conversely, they flare toward the waist-band 2. They cross each other as plainly suggested in Fig. 1, being sewn together tightly at the point 5, defining a V- shaped configuration which is hereinafter conveniently termed a suspension panel. The edges II), II, are manifestly free from the point l6 upwards (Fig. 4). The members l2, l3, are seamed at I! to the main garment, and again seamed at l8 to a crotch insert l 9 which is the intermediary between the back 20 (Fig. 2)- and the front of the garment.

Said crotch insert is seamed at 2| to a portion 22 (Fig. l) which extends well around to the front from the back 20 of the garment, said portion 22 being more especi-allyidentified with a seat area 23 (Fig. 2) which is conveniently designated by the dot and dash lines 24. The seams I8 (Fig. 1) are in substantial continuation of the edges H), H and since they are in an inverted U form they complete an X with the edges H), II of the suspension panel 1, 9.

Lines 25, 26 (Fig. 1) conveniently superimposed upon the edges [0, II, and scams l8 are intended to denote stretch lines. If the garment is grasped at the extremities of these lines and pulled it will be noted that an even stress is distributed from 'the waist-band to the hems. The seams l8 perform the particular function of a suspension ridge. Inasmuch as these seams are connected at the point I6, it follows that a considerable factor of strength is imparted to the garment by virtue of the particular downwardly flaring disposition of said seams.

The crotch insert H! as well as the portion 22 hang directly from this suspension ridge and has an adequate support from the ridge I8. The effect of this construction is to bring a fairly large part of the seat area 23 around to the front.

of the garment as evidenced by the portion 22, this arrangement providing a large percentage of roominess in the seat area which insures comfort in the wearing of the garment. Moreover, the fullness which the portion 22 afiords is responsible for the assumption of an inverted U shape of the crotch (Figs. 1 and 2) when the garment is worn instead of the customary constricted inverted V shape. The seam designated at 21 goes from front to back of the garment, beginning at the point [6 (Fig. 1) and ending at the waist-band 2 in back,

Now reverting to the fastening members introduced at the beginning of this description. This may consist of buttons and button-holes but preferably comprise the snap fasteners shown. They are conveniently divided into a series of three pin members*28 on the panel 9 (Fig. 4) and a matching series of three head members 29 on the-panel 1. A single pin member 30 spaced from the series 28 is intended to be snapped into a selected one of the head members 29, while a single head member 3| spaced from the series 29 is adapted to receive a selected pin member The principle of adjustmentis readily seen.

The various head and pin members are so interconnected as to expand or contract the waistband 2 as may be needed for a given waist measure. In conclusion it is observed in each of Figs. 1 and 2 that the garment is pleated at 32, 33, to properlytake up the goods which would otherwise comprise an undesirable fullness at the waist-band.

I claim:

A garment comprising leg members, a waist portion and a crotch portion, said crotch portion being connected between the inner and lower portions of the leg members, panels included in the leg members and waist portion at the front of the garment and defined by the inner edges of the panels extending diagonally in straight lines from the waist portion to the bottom of the leg members and by stitching spaced outwardly of the inner edges and running from points adjacent the waist to the bottoms of the leg members, the inner edges crossing each other at a point approximately one-half of the length of said edges, means securing the lower half of the inner edges of the panels to adjacent edges of the crotch portion, the upper half of the panels adapted to lie in overlapped relation with each other,

CHARLOTTE C. ARPIN. 

